Total War’s official Twitter has launched one other tease for Warhammer II’s subsequent DLC, forward of a possible reveal tomorrow. Said tease is a letter, which hints strongly that the following content material drop will probably be all about pirates, probably of the undead selection.
The letter is addressed to an unnamed admiral, and recommends its recipient “set sail” for “the wharf of the Rusting Harbour.” The Rusting Harbour is in Sartosa, the pirate capital of the Warhammer world. Sartosa was not too long ago added to Warhammer II’s Mortal Empires marketing campaign – taken by many followers as an indication that it will function within the subsequent DLC.
We know concerning the Rusting Harbour from the lore round Dreadfleet, a spin-off Warhammer tabletop game all about maritime battles. The titular Dreadfleet was led by an undead admiral named Count Noctilus and opposed by a pirate captain named Jaego Roth, every of whom assembled an alliance of different captains drawn from throughout the Warhammer world.
Undead pirates have one other precedent within the type of Luthor Harkon, who based an undead enclave, the Vampire Coast, on the shores of Lustria. While making an attempt to sack a temple there, protecting glyphs written by the Lizardmen attacked his thoughts, rendering him insane. The line in at this time’s letter referring to ‘shattered minds’ may properly be a touch that Harkon is coming – like Sartosa, the Vampire Coast is a faction within the game proper now, and ripe for a bit fleshing out.
So it appears pretty sure that tomorrow’s DLC can have a nautical theme, and can most likely flesh out Sartosa and the Vampire Coast. Mention of “a dealer of antiquities” would possibly trace at a brand new item-based mechanic, however we’re getting speculative now. Here’s the tweet:
I’ve discovered what you search… pic.twitter.com/RSANn1zEYc
— Total War (@totalwar) October 3, 2018
It’s additionally notable that Total War: Warhammer’s lead narrative designer, Andy Hall, was as soon as on Games Workshop’s specialist games group, and had a hand within the design of Dreadfleet. I do not know what which may truly imply, but it surely’s positively notable.
How does this sq. with earlier teases? Pretty neatly, truly. If the smudges on the map tweeted out last week correspond not with the continents on the Vortex map, however with the landmasses round Sartosa, then the ‘X’ marks Sartosa completely. And as many followers famous, the development update mentioning “salt” may simply have been nodding to its use as nautical slang.
One thing more. Total War: Warhammer doesn’t presently have a naval battle system – it’s one of many causes a mod that jerry-rigs a naval battle mechanic is without doubt one of the extra standard on the Steam workshop proper now. Can Creative Assembly actually introduce a seafaring enlargement with out placing ‘proper’ naval battles in?
I suppose we’ll discover out tomorrow.
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